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Dominic Chianese

"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."

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"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."

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Donna Grant

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

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Donna Grant

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."

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Donna Grant

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

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Donna Grant

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

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Donna Grant

"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."

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Donna Grant

"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."

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Donna Grant

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody is doing the same old thing."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead."

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Donna Grant

"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."

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Dominic Chianese
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

Father

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Dominic Chianese
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."

Life

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Dominic Chianese
"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."

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Dominic Chianese
"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."

Family

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Dominic Chianese
"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."

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Dominic Chianese
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."

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Dominic Chianese
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."

Mother

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Dominic Chianese
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."

Anger

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Dominic Chianese
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."

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Dominic Chianese
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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